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by valuearb 1825 days ago
So you think the accused killers family would be much happier if they found out he didn’t kill either of them, just had sex with the dying girl and left her to die?
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That's where your mind went. In this article, it would be just as easy for them to have had consensual sex beforehand.

The feelings of the family is not a factor in investigating and prosecuting the right people.

> That's where your mind went

This is in the post he's replying to:

> There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be or about to be dead.

Brock Turner is a well known recent case of rape, the rapist (Brock Turner) sexually assaulted an unconscious woman before two graduate students intervened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner

Except they were conflating the examples with the article along with the Brock Turner reference

Its almost impossible to respond except in the way that I did

Half the parent level comments are also saying semen isn't a great for helping with anything except investigating a sexual assault

> “ There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be or about to be dead.”

You posited he could have merely raped the dying victim (semen isn’t left by “fiddling around”). I ask you again whether hit matters if he was a rapist-murderer or merely a rapist of bound murder victims.

Reasonable doubt doesn’t mean constructing convoluted scenarios to explain how he left his semen in her without raping or murdering her. Occams Razor falls very hard on the obvious answer here.

You will never understand what I wrote.
Them you should reread what you wrote, maybe out loud, to recognize how unclear it was.

Being able to clearly write your thoughts is an important skill that can be improved with practice.